Santa Clara County Supervisors Pass Anti-Smoking Measures
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously passed three new ordinances that will tighten tobacco restrictions in unincorporated areas of the county.
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The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously passed three new ordinances that will tighten tobacco restrictions in unincorporated areas of the county.
The military is accepting openly gay recruits for the first time in the nation's history, even as it tries in the courts to slow the movement to abolish its "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown began airing a campaign ad Tuesday casting his rival as a political clone of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
With two weeks left to go in a close contest, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Tuesday opened up about her own life struggles in her attempt to reach out to women.
With his term coming to an end, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reflected on his time in office in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Ballot measures San Franciscans will consider next month could affect city employee health care and pension contributions, public transit operator pay, hotel and real estate taxes, and the ability of police to crack down on confrontational street denizens.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday he doesn't just want to defeat the November ballot measure that would suspend the state's greenhouse gas emissions law—he wants voters to trounce it to prompt Washington to create a new national energy policy.
Voters who strongly support legalizing marijuana in California may also be tilting the vote in the U.S. Senate race slightly in favor of incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer, according to a new KPIX-TV CBS 5 poll released Tuesday.
A federal judge said on Monday that she is learning toward denying a government request to delay her order halting the military from enforcing its ban on openly gay troops.
The city of San Francisco told a federal appeals court Monday that "Proposition 8 is peculiarly irrational under California law."
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Monday continued to attack Sen. Barbara Boxer for supporting the federal stimulus plan, calling it a failure.
The San Carlos City Council is holding a special meeting Monday night to discuss how the city will provide fire and emergency services to its residents if the Belmont-San Carlos Fire Department is dissolved next year as proposed.
U.S. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner said at a Palo Alto talk Monday that bank and government officials made catastrophic mistakes with the economy, but that it is slowly healing.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown reiterated his support for undocumented college students at California's public universities, suggesting at a news conference in San Francisco Monday that Republican rival Meg Whitman wants them to work in "subordinate positions."
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill, designed to help stop slavery and human trafficking in California, into law Monday.
